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Withdrawl from heroin.
Withdrawl from heroin.
mgiles: From heroin? The
mgiles:
From heroin? The withdrawal symptoms shouldn't sporadically recur, not from heroin, and the reason is because heroin has an extremely short half-life, and it's a very small and easily metabolized molecule in the body. That's why heroin addicts need to re-up so often, because the drug stays in their plasma for so short a time. Even a years long heavy heroin addict can reasonably expect to finish withdrawals, at least the worst of them, after no more than a week.
It's possible that some dope-sickness may seem to linger or recur, but in that case it's probably just the body re-adjusting, and it could have some psychological elements as well.
Otherwise, acute withdrawals in a drug with such a short half-life won't keep popping up. The same isn't true for Methadone, the half-life of which is so long and so unpredictable that it tends to sink into tissues. heroin doesn't do that.
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